Important qualities of authentic relationships across differences

Karen Pace and Dionardo Pizana write: “Our commitment to the ongoing process of developing an authentic relationship across racial and gender differences has helped us to identify important foundational qualities of our relationship. These characteristics are essential to building trusting and lasting relationships across race and gender within a society that continues to be grounded in racism, sexism and other forms of oppression.”

Sun Tsu, ‘The Art of War’

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before a defeat.

2014-03-30T08:00:57+00:00

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before a defeat.

http://www.thechangeagency.org/testimonials/sun-tsu-the-art-of-war-2/

Community organising is…

"Community organizing is the process of building power through involving a constituency in identifying problems they share and the solutions to those problems that they desire; identifying the people and structures that can make those solutions possible; enlisting those targets in the effort through negotiation and using confrontation and pressure when needed; and building an institution that is democratically controlled by that constituency that can develop the capacity to take on further problems and that embodies the will and the power of that constituency."
Dave Beckwith & Christina Lopez

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“Community organizing is the process of building power through involving a constituency in identifying problems they share and the solutions to those problems that they desire; identifying the people and structures that can make those solutions possible; enlisting those targets in the effort through negotiation and using confrontation and pressure when needed; and building an...

Dr Martin Luther King Jr.

The ultimate measure of people is not where they stand in moments of comfort and convenience, but where they stand at times of challenge and controversy.

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The ultimate measure of people is not where they stand in moments of comfort and convenience, but where they stand at times of challenge and controversy.

http://www.thechangeagency.org/testimonials/dr-martin-luther-king-jr/

Michael Albert, Zmag

Changing society isn't a matter of breaking windows. It is a process of developing consciousness and vehicles of organisation and movement, and of then applying these to win gains that benefit deserving constituencies and create conditions for still further victories leading to permanent institutional change. Cultivating movement coherence, trust and solidarity - not just a small affinity group but far more widely - is a big part of this agenda.

2014-03-30T09:05:53+00:00

Changing society isn’t a matter of breaking windows. It is a process of developing consciousness and vehicles of organisation and movement, and of then applying these to win gains that benefit deserving constituencies and create conditions for still further victories leading to permanent institutional change. Cultivating movement coherence, trust and solidarity – not just a...

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